• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2009년도 제33회 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.395-398
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• 2009

Currently, a new generation of ducted fan UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) is under development for a wide range of inspection, investigation and combat missions as well as for a variety of civil roles like traffic monitoring, meteorological studies, hazard mitigation etc. The current study presents extensive results obtained experimentally in order to investigate the tip clearance effects on performance characteristics of a ducted fan for small UAV systems. Three ducted fans having different tip clearance gap and with same rotor size were examined under three different yawed conditions of calibrated slanted hot-wire probe. Three dimensional velocity flow fields were measured from hub to tip at outlet of the ducted fan. The analysis of data were done by PLEAT (Phase locked Ensemble Averaging Technique) and three non-linear differential equations were solved simultaneously by using Newton -Rhapson numerical method. Flow field characteristics such as tip vortex and secondary flow were confirmed through axial, radial and tangential velocity contour plots. At the same time, the effects of tip clearance on axial thrust and input power were also investigated by using wind tunnel measurement system. For enhancing the performance of ducted fan, tip clearance level should be as small as possible.

• 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 유체기계공업학회 1997년도 강연회 및 연구개발 발표회 논문집
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• pp.117-124
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• 1997

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2000

Performance and flow characteristics of a small forward swept propeller fan for home refrigerators are studied experimentally. An unusual discontinuity is observed in the performance curve of the fan. Mean flow fields measured with as-hole Pitot probe reveal that the flow is axial at the high flow rate and radial at the low flow rate. The flow structure changes abruptly across the discontinuity. Unsteady flow measurements with a set of hot-wire probes indicate that near the discontinuity a single-cell stall rotates at 40% speed of the fan speed, while away from the discontinuity the flow shows periodic variation corresponding to the blade passage frequency. Phase-lock averaged flow fields measured with a triple-sensor hot-wire probe show that there appears radially inward flow over the pressure side of the blade and the outward passage flow over the tip.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2005년도 춘계 학술대회논문집
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• pp.25-29
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• 2005

Axial fan is used for the supplement of large amount of flows. Axial blowers show relatively high efficiency of the system. The present model of axial fan is for cooling a condenser in an air-conditioning unit that exhibits tendency toward compact size. In order to realize the compact model, the width of an axial blade should be cut down in axial distance. Main interest lies on the performance of the axial blowing system with blades having shorter chord length. One of the important design parameters for axial fan is the shape of the blades of it. Design of blades includes the cross-sectional shape and its dimension, including the chord length. We consider two types of blades; one is NACA airfoil with normal chord length and the other is with shortening chord length by $10\%$ of normal airfoil. Axial blower with the modified blades is essential for the compact model of an air-conditioner. The other design parameters are same in the two cases. Using a wind tunnel follows ASHRAE standards carries out evaluation of performance of the system. Detail of flows around the blades is prepared by velocity measurements using PIV. According to performance estimation, the axial blower with short chord blade show quite close to the performance results, including flow rate and pressure rise, of the standard one. The reason of the two similar results is that the flowpatterns depend on Reynolds number based on the chord length of a blade. In this investigation, the critical chord length is found, in which the flows near the airfoil are so unstable and the performance of the system is decreased. A series of figures is for the detail information on the flow.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.103-111
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• 2024

축류팬은 상대적으로 저압의 유동 영역에서 유동을 수송하기 위해 사용되며, 다양한 설계 변수에 대해 설계된다. 축류팬의 날개 끝 형상은 유동 및 소음 성능에 지배적인 역할을 수행하며 이에 대한 대표적인 유동 현상으로 날개 끝에서 발생하는 날개 끝 와류와 누설 와류가 있다. 이러한 3차원 유동 구조를 제어하기 위해 다양한 연구가 수행되어 왔으며, 항공기 분야에서 날개 끝 와류를 억제하고 효율을 증가시키기 위해 윙렛 형상이 개발되었다. 본 연구에서는 에어컨 실외기용 축류팬 날개에 적용된 윙렛 형상의 영향을 분석하기 위한 수치적, 실험적 연구를 수행하였다. 3차원 유동 구조 및 유동 소음을 수치적으로 분석하기 위해 unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) 방정식과 Ffocws-Williams and Hawkings(FW-H) 방정식을 전산유체역학 기법에 기초하여 수치 해석하였으며, 실험 결과와의 비교를 통해 수치 기법의 유효성을 검증하였다. 윙렛 형상에 따른 날개 끝 와류와 누설 와류의 형성의 차이를 3차원 유동장을 통해 비교하고, 그에 따른 공기역학적 성능을 정량적으로 비교하였다. 또한, 예측 유동장을 바탕으로 소음을 수치적으로 모사하여 윙렛 형상이 유동 소음 측면에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 대상 팬 모델의 시제품을 제작하여 유동 및 소음 실험을 실시하여 실제 성능을 정량적으로 평가하였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.515-523
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• 2020

본 연구의 목표는 냉장고 기계실 냉각용 축류팬을 대상으로 익렬 분석법과 표면 돌기 형상을 이용하여 유량과 소음 성능을 향상시키는 것이다. 먼저 기존 팬 시스템의 유동 및 소음 성능을 팬 성능 시험기와 무향실에서 실험적으로 평가하였다. 다음으로 전산유체역학과 Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings(FW-H) 방정식을 연계한 수치해석을 이용하여 유량과 소음 성능을 예측하였으며 실험 결과와의 비교를 통해 그 유효성을 검증하였다. 검증된 수치해석기법을 기반으로 유량 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 기존 팬으로부터 추출된 익형들로 구성한 2차원 익렬의 유동 성능 분석을 수행하고 양항비를 최대화할 수 있는 피치각을 도출하였다. 최적 피치각이 적용된 축류팬의 수치해석을 실시하여 향상된 유량 성능을 확인하였다. 향상된 유량 성능을 바탕으로 추가적인 소음 성능을 개선하기 위해 표면 돌기 형상을 팬 압력면에 적용한 팬 날개를 도출하였으며 수치적으로 유동 소음의 저감을 확인하였다. 마지막으로 유량 및 소음 성능 개선 축류팬을 제작하여 검증 실험을 통해 유량 및 소음 성능이 향상됨을 확인하였다.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.7-16
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• 2007

An axial-type fan which operates at the relative total pressure of 671Pa and static pressure of 560Pa with the flow rate of $416.6m^3/min$ is developed with an optimization technique based on the gradient method. Prior to the optimization of fan blade, a three-dimensional axial-type fan blade is designed based on the free-vortex method along the radial direction. Twelve design variables are applied to the optimization of the rotor blade, and one design variable is selected for optimizing a stator which is located behind of the rotor and is used to support a fan driving motor. The total and static pressure are applied to the restriction condition with the operating flowrate on the design point, and the efficiency is chosen as the response variable to be maximized. Through these procedures, an initial axial-fan blade designed by the free vortex method is modified to increase the efficiency with the satisfaction of the operating condition. The optimized fan is tested to compare the aerodynamic performance with an imported same class fan. The test result shows that the optimized fan operates with the satisfaction of restriction conditions, but the imported fan cannot. From the experimental and numerical test, they show that this optimization method improves the fan efficiency and operating pressures of a fan designed by the classical fan design method.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.288-291
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• 2008

Recently, the importance and necessity of engineering analysis has shown a steady growth. However, researchers working in small and medium enterprises know little about the usefulness of engineering analysis and suffer from lack of technical knowledge. Axial fan is air fluid machinery in various fields of industry such as automobile, electric appliance, and heavy machinery. It is also a time and budget consuming equipment to develop the axial fan through physical experiments. In order to overcome this problem, we have designed and developed a web-base automated simulator for axial fan's fluid analysis using supercomputer. Automated simulator means that all of processes for engineering analysis including pre-process, solving, and post-process can be performed automatically without user intervention after transferring fan model(CAD files) made by user. After executing the simulator with some parameters, user can receive the report including pressure P and flow rate Q. In this paper, we introduce the architecture of our easy and efficient automated engineering analysis simulator, related techniques and result of development.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.1107-1114
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• 2004

Axial fans are widely used for automotive engine cooling device due to their ability to produce high flow rate to keep engine cool. At the same time, the noise generated by these fans causes one of the most serious problems. Especially, engine cooling fan noise in idle condition of a car is noticeable. Therefore. the high efficient and low-noise fan is seriously needed. When a new fan system is designed, system resistance and non-uniform inflow are the key factors to get the high performance and low noise fan system. In this study, aerodynamic and acoustic calculations are carried out on the automotive cooling fan and system. Effects of various design parameters are studied through the free wake analysis and experiments. Better performance and noise characteristic are obtained for the new design fan using the methodology. Furthermore through the modification of the fan system geometry parameters, the fan system produce more flow rate and become less noisy.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.30-36
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• 2008

Axial fan without static blades requires the duct as a guidance for unskewed inflows. This work examined the geometric effects of a duct guided the in and out flows through an impeller. The present methodologies are computational predictions with parallel work by experimental validation. Several different positions of a rotor in a duct are proposed for plausible models of a rotor inside a duct. The optimum axial position of an impeller in a duct is found at the #4 model where the impeller lies on the inlet edge of a circular duct. The model shows a wider inlet area. The result of computational prediction is in good agreement with experiment measurement.